Mizuki Shigeru Road [水木しげるロード]

Mizuki Shigeru Road is a street displaying many monuments of the manga characters by Mizuki Shigeru (1922-2015).

It is located in the center of Sakaiminato city about 15 km northwest of Yonago city.
The street is about 800 meters, and stretches from JR Sakaiminato terminal station to the east.

Mizuki Shigeru was a Japanese manga artist.
He was born in Osaka city, and lived in Sakaiminato city in his childhood.

He made his debut as a manga artist in 1958.
His manga is very unique, and Japanese traditional "Yokai" (ghosts, phantoms, etc.) are used as the characters.

Especially, "GeGeGe no Kitaro" became a popular manga series from 1967 to 2000s.
Because of uncanny characters, the stories were made like the battle of hero and bad men.

Mizuki was presented with the Order of Culture from Japanese government for his achievements.

Originally, the street was a common shopping area, but 11 monuments of the charcters in GeGeGe no Kitaro was set up for the town revitalization in 1993.

The monuments have been added since that, and there are 177 monuments now.

And Mizuki Shigeru Museum is opened on the eastern end of the street in 2003.
It introduces the life and work of Mizuki and the world of his manga.

By the way, Sakaiminato is a port city.
Many ferries put into the port and there is a major fishing port.

There are many restaurants using fresh fish in the city.

Mizuki Shigeru Museum (Japanese website)

How to get here

By JR Sakai Line, about 50 minutes from Yonago.

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